direct discourse

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The story proper is written entirely in direct discourse which is really soliloquy, shading sometimes into a kind of ghostly dialog.

From Time Magazine Archive

Material is generally considered to be later, for instance, as it increases in length, detail, and direct discourse, and decreases in Jewish influence.

From Time Magazine Archive

Keep in mind the fact that you are to use the past tense and direct discourse.

From Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes by Clippinger, Erle Elsworth

We miss direct discourse of simple human affection about the person, which we find so often in those lay speeches at the grave of which in France they set us nowadays so many good examples.

From Memories and Studies by James, Henry

The writer has changed it all to the direct discourse.

From Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858 by Hansen, Marcus L.